Egg prices keep rising. Will Australians cut back or will we embrace $1 an egg as the new normal?

At about 250 to 260 eggs a person each year, our egg consumption is very high by international standards

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Ten years ago, a takeaway coffee costing $6 would have been scandalous. Twenty years before that, you'd have been shocked by the idea of paying more than $2 a litre for fuel.

Are we nearing a time when Australians pay $1 for an egg at the supermarket? And what would it mean for our breakfast habits?

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